Taher Tawfiq al-Ani

Taher Tawfiq al-Ani was Governor of Mosul under Ba'athist Iraq and head of the Northern Affairs Bureau under Saddam Hussein.

Biography
Taher Tawfiq al-Ani was from a family of Sunni Muslim Bedouin, and he was appointed Governor of Mosul and head of the Northern Affairs Bureau under Saddam Hussein in the 1980s. In this role, he was one of the men responsible for the genocide committed against the Kurds in the al-Anfal Campaign; he was acquitted of war crimes in a 2007 trial.